Aged just 19, BEA apprentice, Mikolaj Ogorek, has been named as the Engineer of the Year by the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE). Mikolaj was nominated by Whitecode Consulting for his outstanding performance in the last year,  with the firm calling the young apprentice "a superstar".

Mikolaj's work co-ordinating the building services across four sites for the London Borough of Hounslow infil sites programme, garnered praise for his "near faultless" mechanical designs and his efforts sourcing air source heat pump solutions and water heat recovery systems. Whitecode Consultancy also described how Mikolaj has been "holding his own in co-ordination meetings between the contractor and client, which at the age of 19 is just astonishing”. It certainly seems that Mikolaj has a bright future ahead of him in the building services engineering industry.

Whitecode took on Mikolaj as one of four apprentices they had hired from Wilmington Grammar School in 2021. As part of the appre

We are proud to announce that towards the end of 2021, 3rd year student Josie Cheeseman was announced as the CIBSE Apprentice of the Year 2021. Josie is currently an Apprentice Building Services Design Engineer at WSP in London, working in the mechanical Team. 

It is fantastic that LSBU Apprentices such as Josie are making such an impact at these early stages of their careers. We celebrate Josie's success and wish her well as she works towards completing her apprenticeship.